Decoherence in conformal field theory

Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Quantum entropies (81P17) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: Noise sources are ubiquitous in Nature and give rise to a description of quantum systems in terms of stochastic Hamiltonians. Decoherence dominates the noise-averaged dynamics and leads to dephasing and the decay of coherences in the eigenbasis of the fluctuating operator. For energy-diffusion processes stemming from fluctuations of the system Hamiltonian the characteristic decoherence time is shown to be proportional to the heat capacity. We analyze the decoherence dynamics of entangled CFTs and characterize the dynamics of the purity, and logarithmic negativity, that are shown to decay monotonically as a function of time. The converse is true for the quantum Renyi entropies. From the short-time asymptotics of the purity, the decoherence rate is identified and shown to be proportional to the central charge. The fixed point characterizing long times of evolution depends on the presence degeneracies in the energy spectrum. We show how information loss associated with decoherence can be attributed to its leakage to an auxiliary environment and discuss how gravity duals of decoherence dynamics in holographic CFTs looks like in AdS/CFT. We find that the inner horizon region of eternal AdS black hole is highly squeezed due to decoherence.

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In this paper, the authors analyze the decoherence in conformal field theory. They mainly consider a thermofield double state which is actually a general entangled pure state undergoing a decoherence process and find out the decoherence rate, the changes of the purity and entanglement. It is shown that the purity and the Renyi entropies monotonically decay from unity to a thermal asymptotic value and the logarithmic negativity in the long-time regime depends on the degeneracies in the energy spectrum. Namely, the degeneracy could lead to the non-zero entanglement. They also analyze the two-point functions, information loss and quantum channel dilations and propose a gravitaional dual interpretation of the decoherent dynamics. Finally, the effect of decoherence on a single CFT copy is shown by analyzing the dynamics of boundary states. From the point of quantum information view, this paper is only focused on a simple calculation/analysis of decoherence of a pure bipartite entangled state. All the results aren't surprising and even could be almost trivial. This job could be interesting for the readers in the field of the gravity duality. But I don't know what these results could mean for the gravity duality. The paper published on ``JHEP could imply the readers in the specalized field. However, as a separate paper, it seems lack of the background of the knowledge about the gravity duality such as the importance of the state \(|\mathrm{CFT}>\), why the thermofield double states should be studied independently, and so on. As for me, these could be what I expected. The current paper should be the final analysis after those research.

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